IMITATION OF JESUS CHRIST (THE). New translation,... - Lot 128 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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IMITATION OF JESUS CHRIST (THE). New translation,... - Lot 128 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
IMITATION OF JESUS CHRIST (THE). New translation, by M. l'abbé Dassance, honorary canon of Montauban, with reflections drawn from the Fathers of the Church, and from Bossuet, Fénelon, Massillon and Bourdaloue, illustrated by Messrs Tony Johannot and Cavelier. Paris, Curmer, 1836. Large in-8, contemporary binding in aubergine glazed calf, on the boards double framed with gilt fillets with corner fleurons framing a garland and a central motif in rhombus pushed in cold and reserving a circular medallion bearing the monogram MB in gilt letters intertwined, spine ribbed decorated with fleurons, interior roulette, hatched edges, gilt edges. First edition. Colour frontispiece and ten steel-engraved out-of-text figures after Tony Johannot, printed before the letter on white vellum in a frame; wood-engraved frame on all text pages drawn by Cavelier and Chenavard. "The standard book of the genre" (Carteret, III, p. 311). A very fine copy, finely and very elegantly bound, without any foxing.
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